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- Hey everyone I'm Mindy McKnight from Cute Girls
Hairstyles, and I have Kylie again here with me.
If you guys haven't been here before, Kylie's my niece
and has graciously offered to let me borrow her
beautiful golden hair.
So today we're gonna show you how to do the flip
Mermaid Heart Braid.
Now I love this one, you guys know I love Valentine's
heart hairdos anyway.
If you want to check out all of our other heart
hairstyles, you can click the button right up there
and you can see all of them.
So go check them out.
And definitely give us a thumbs up if you love
Valentine's Day.
Alright, are you ready?
- Yep.
- Let's do it.
(swish)
Okay you guys, so this is how I started this hairstyle.
I pulled the top part of her hair back.
I left about an inch above her ears.
You can see that I left a couple little just soft
face framing pieces I pulled out
and then in the back, I secured it with an elastic
and then wrapped it with hair.
Okay, so we're going to take a topsy tail
and if you don't have one, that's fine
cuz you can just use your hands too.
But you're basically going to thread
the topsy tail upside down
and then we're going to put the hair through it
and again, if you don't have this,
you just make a whole in the hair and flip it upside.
This is just a little easier way to do it.
It hurts a little less I feel like.
And you're just going to flip the hair.
Okay, so we flipped it basically from down
towards the ceiling and this is why.
Because when you tighten it down,
what you want is that lift.
Do you see this natural, like how if I just
divide it in half, it almost is just naturally
sort of falling into the arches of the heart.
And that's exactly what you want.
So at this point, you want to divide the hair
into two pieces evenly, like this.
And we're going to work with the right side first.
So I'm going to take this and I'm going to start
a three strand braid.
Now on this braid, I'm going to do
three normal stitches before I add in any hair
and that's just to get that arch
of the heart really together.
Like if you start adding in hair, it starts looking messy
and it doesn't look like a heart anymore.
So make sure you do three stitches first.
So I'm going to do three strands.
There's one stitch.
Two, three.
Okay, now I'm going to reach over.
Make sure I don't pull that hair.
I'm going to grab a little piece and add it in, like this.
We're only adding in to this right side.
I'm grabbing another little piece
and I'm going to add it in.
This is where the mermaid part comes in
because this is kind of mermaid stitching, right?
You can leave hair out by the ear if you want
or you can pull it back, up to you.
Three.
Add it in.
Make sure you don't pick up hairs behind.
And a last one, four.
And then I'm just going to go to a normal braid.
You can keep doing mermaid, all the way down
if you want to, I just am not going to.
I just like on the sides and finish out with a normal braid.
And then secure with an elastic.
Now we're going to move on to the left side
and we're basically going to repeat the same steps
but on this left side.
So three sections of hair for a normal braid.
Do three stitches before you add in.
And again, we're just going to add in four little sections.
And then finish it off with a normal braid.
When you get down to the end of the normal braid,
you're going to combine the two ends
so I'm going to remove this elastic
from this side and I'm going
to secure them together instead.
So right here, I'm just eyeballing this
and making sure it looks like it's kind of
even on both sides.
I'm going to secure it.
Okay, so this look good to me
but I think that the heart right here
isn't accented enough for my taste
so what I like to do is just go back
and really give these three edges
a nice good little tug, like this.
I don't pull it through here
because then it looks too messy.
So it's just the top stitching
where you didn't have hair adding in.
And I just feel like just tweaking that
that much really accent the heart.
And then the other thing you can do
is take a little bobby pin and just reach up and under
and pin that down to her head to have the heart pop
a little bit more.
So I'm just taking that bobby pin
and laying it right here.
And then I feel like it just emphasizes the heart
a little bit more.
And then you go.
(swish)
Okay, let's do the final spin
on this heart mermaid hair.
Isn't it cute?
I love the way it turned out.
What do you think Kylie?
- I think it's cute.
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and we will see you guys next week.
Bye guys
- Bye.
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